Posted on 01/09/2023 4:39:26 PM PST by daniel1212
Eversource: On Jan. 1, a residential customer using an average of 600 kWh will see an increase in their bill of approximately 26% compared to December.....The supply portion of your bill, or the cost of electricity (Basic Service), is significantly higher this winter because of record high natural gas prices, which are having the biggest impact on bills. This is especially true in New England where natural gas is used to generate much of the region’s electricity.
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If all had gone according to plan, the Constitution pipeline would be carrying fracked gas 124 miles from the shale gas fields of Pennsylvania through streams, wetlands, and backyards across the Southern Tier of New York until west of Albany. There it would join two existing pipelines, one that extends into New England and the other to the Ontario border as part of a vast network that moves fracked gas throughout the northeastern United States and Canada. For a while, everything unfolded as expected. When the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the project in 2014, the U.S. was in the midst of a fracking boom that would make it the world’s largest producer of natural gas and crude oil... Yet the developers did not anticipate landowners, neighborhood residents, community leaders, and anti-fracking activists statewide forging a coalition to kill the pipeline. In a landmark defeat, New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation denied the project’s water-quality certificate in 2016, leading Williams to abandon it in early 2020.
The defeat of the Constitution pipeline marked the start of an uncertain era for interstate pipelines in New York and beyond. The company behind the Northeast Energy Direct pipeline, which would have carried shale gas through New York into New England, abandoned the project just days before the state rejected the Constitution pipeline. In 2017, developers walked away from the Pilgrim pipelines, which would have funneled fracked oil from New York to New Jersey. In May, state officials denied a key permit for the Northeast Supply Enhancement pipeline, commonly referred to as the Williams pipeline, between New Jersey and New York City. - https://grist.org/fix/advocacy/how-activists-shut-down-key-pipeline-projects-new-york/
Simply put, natural gas pipelines that could bring abundant gas supplies from Appalachia’s Marcellus shale region have been blocked at every turn over many years. ..All six New England states rank among the top ten highest electricity rates in the continental U.S...It’s also worth noting that a ban on LNG exports wouldn’t increase the amount of U.S. LNG available to the Northeast. That’s because the century-old Jones Act—which limits trade between U.S. ports to American-flagged ships only—effectively prohibits LNG imports from the Gulf Coast. Instead, New England pays top dollar for cargoes from Trinidad, Nigeria, and occasionally even Russia.-https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2022/02/18/northeast_pipeline_blockade_delivers_trifecta_of_bad_outcomes_dependence_on_fuel_oil_higher_prices_and_more_foreign_energy_imports_817354.html
increased natural gas pipeline capacity into New England, though clearly the most feasible solution to the region’s electricity shortages, is not going to happen.
Political opposition is the reason, both in the New England states themselves but also in New York, through which most potential pipelines would have to pass. As it is, New York is starving itself of needed gas, and is even less likely to agree to serve as a conduit through which gas moves on to New England states. - https://cei.org/blog/more-new-england-natural-gas-pipelines-needed-but-unlikely/;
The purposeful destruction of the US continues apace…
Our bill more than doubled ( maryland)
“Increased Electricity Prices and Winter Bills [approx. 26% increase in electric bills from Dec. which came after 38% increase Nov. 1]”
It’s the LEAST we can do to keep the money flow from Ukraine to the DNC continuing.
The people in Maine gave Communist Governor Janet Mills a landslide victory in November - hope they remember who they voted for when their pipes burst.
A couple of million people in New England voted for Trump.
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Ain’t the Green Raw Deal wonderful.
I’m in MA,I get it but Trump did get votes throughout NE.
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I burn wood to heat my home. I highly recommend it.
My three year rate contract just expired last month and now the best deal I could find is 28% higher.
Burning wood is rated “carbon neutral” by Eurocrats, although Greta & Co. are trying to overturn the ruling.
Everybody??? Check my tagline!
At least two votes!
If you increase the price of something 38% and later you increase the price by 26%
the 26% increase is almost as much as the 38% increase was.
38% of 100 = 38
26% of 138 = 35.88
After a negative experience with one of those energy dealers I politely refused the weekly canvassers in our city offering such, but had i only known what 2020+ would bring, a long term lock-in price contract would have been nice.
But but but it is done in increments so (like boiling a frog) it does not feel as bad as it is.
Our electric bill was about double for last month. I almost fainted when I logged in to check on it. And I’m in the southeast where we haven’t thus far taken as large a hit as those in the north. Yes, we had that cold snap for a week at Christmas, but I wasn’t expecting for our bill to be as high as it was. And we have a wood stove which we kept going at full speed during that cold week.
It might have felt a leetle less bad if they had waited two years for the 2nd increase instead of two months.
Ow! That bill is kind of hot. :)
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